Shedding question..

[ECechoHO]

This is what i meant, MINUS the female of course..!!

http://vid1172.photobucket.com/album...ps9sxcp821.mp4

[Ax01]

THANKS for the post/url link, problem was solved after i misted him and feeding commenced leter in the day.. Now my female on the other hand refused the feast last night im going to try her again today..

If they refuse a meal, there's not much of a reason to try again the very next day. Just chalk it up to her not being ready for a meal and try again on the next regularly scheduled feeding day. Offering food too often to a BP that's not eating will likely only add to both your own stress and theirs.

what is your husbandry for the female? sometimes not eating is temp, humidity and enclosure related.

[ECechoHO]

Not to be mean but im not going to get into the enclosure thing, i feed all my snakes in a feeder "tank" with paper towels as substrate as always.. The only thing that is very different is she got ("knocked up"<---excuse my language to the lil "kids" on here) on the 5th of october.. She's weird though, she looks as if she's "building" then when i look at her the next day she's back to her normal size, then building looking and so on.. .. This is the second week she pulled this "fasting" <---- thing...

[Montypython696]

Why do you feed in a separate tank?

There's no issue with feeding in their own enclosure. And taking them out of it, and putting them somewhere else may just stress them out enough to not eat.

[ECechoHO]

Don't want them snapping at me when i put my hand in there to take them out to clean the enclosure, i LOVE putting them around my neck and walk around my apt with (my kids)them... Been doing this since i first got them from 2010-now, no probs like this before, 2 weeks she hasn't eaten... Hopefully it is what i think it is and want it to be ...

[PitOnTheProwl]

Don't want them snapping at me when i put my hand in there to take them out to clean the enclosure,

That is a myth.

[ECechoHO]

that profile pic offends me, now if i disagree with the myth statement are all the band wagoners going to pop up, i been doing good on this site trying to keep the peace between ECechoHOs posts....My male BP snapped at me twice since i had him, so it's NOT a myth...

[Dave Green]

One hatchling being nippy means nothing. I feed hundreds of ball pythons in their cages and they are never cage aggressive. If food is around they go into feed mode, if there is no food they don't.

[Montypython696]

The feeding in a separate cage is a myth. One that I bought into when I first started caring for Balls back in 2006. I started feeding them all in their own enclosures 5 or so years ago, since then I've noticed no increase of aggression when doing maintenance. The only increase in aggression I've noticed is during feeding; and with them eating, I don't see a problem in it.

And for the nippy part. You own wild animals. If it has a mouth, you're going to get bit at one point or another, its going to happen. As someone who has a "pregnant" female, you better get used to the nippiness, she's going to display it, as well as any babies you produce. Get used to it.

[ECechoHO]

understood, no arguements just that he wasn't a hatchling when this happened.. I just don't want it happening again, thas all..